At their meeting this week, CFA challenged CSU Trustees to more
critically scrutinize mental health care on the campuses, spoke
out for stronger measures on student safety, and called for
better use of state funds.

At Governor Brown’s news conference on his 2018-19 state budget
plan last week, a reporter asked him about the
CFA PopUp Art Installation outside calling for more funding
to admit 18,000 more qualified students to the CSU.

On Wednesday, Jan. 10, CFA hosted a Pop-Up Art Installation at
the Capitol as a way to highlight the need for increased
state funding for the California State University system.

Each of the 1,570 chairs represented the missing seats for 20
qualified students turned away from the CSU in the 2016-17
academic year. That totals 31,400 students denied access to the
CSU in one year alone.

Faculty and students served as docents, and talked to lawmakers,
Capitol staffers, and visitors about the need to #FundTheCSU.

Faculty and students transformed into informative docents today
as CFA hosted a pop-up art installation on the North lawn of the
State Capitol to symbolize the increasing lack of access to the
CSU and quality public higher education.

CFA sent the following Open Letter to CSU Chancellor Timothy
White and CSU Trustees in advance of the release on January 10,
2018 of Governor Brown’s 2018-19 State Budget plan .CFA calls on CSU leaders to be stronger in fighting to
keep the CSU—the People’s University—public and open to all
qualified Californians.

The time has come for the state of California to end the long,
slow process of dismantling public higher education. For decades,
state disinvestment from the California State University has
harmed students and it has harmed our state. We have too few
Californians with college degrees.

The CSU is turning away eligible students who were promised a
place in college in California’s Master Plan for Higher
Education. More than 31,000 students were denied admission this
year, with more students likely to be excluded in the future.

Now, this disinvestment is poised to continue, both in the
Governor’s budget proposal to be released this month and in the
budget request that the CSU Trustees submitted to the governor.

Did you do the required courses in high school and/or community
college?

Did you apply to go to a California State University campus and
get turned down anyway?

We want to hear from you.

About 30,000 qualified California students are turned away from
admission to the California State University every year. This has
been going on for a long time, and if the state legislature and
governor do not provide enough “enrollment growth” money in the
state budget, tens of thousands of students will keep getting
turned away.

California State University maxes out, turns away more
students than ever
San Francisco Chronicle
California State University turned away more qualified applicants
than ever last year — one in 10 students, or 31,000 people— even
though the state’s Master Plan for Higher Education says they
should be admitted.